New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1984. Scroll measuring 122 by 3 1/4 inches. One of 300 copies, printed in black with blue cherubim as ornament. This speech by Adelman was read at a meeting of the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library on April 3, 1981. In his..... More
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1980. 32pp. One of 350 copies, signed by Jane Bernier, the printer. With charming hand-colored illustrations. Fine in gilt-titled red leather, with gold foil endpapers. (Bradbury, p. 33). (3/4 by 5/8; 19x14mm). More
Buffalo: Breed & Lent, (c. 1866). 64pp. The third book in Frances Elizabeth Barrow's smallest and rarest series of Aunt Fanny books, focused on the adventures of two cats, Daisy and Dot, and their owners. In addition to her writing, Barrow was a prodigious teacher in New York City, where..... More
(Evanston, IL): Press of Ward Schori, 1988. xvi, 29pp. From an edition of 300 copies, this is one of 100 deluxe copies in a slipcase with a Kennedy medallion encased in its front cover. A tribute to the young president with a frontispiece illustration of Kennedy and the White House..... More
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1985. (39)pp. One of 85 copies, signed by Carol Cunningham, who printed the book. A brief history of the Inca civilization illustrated throughout with hand-colored illustrations and striking gold-stamped imagery on black paper. This copy bound by Hannah Brown in sheet brass covered with black..... More
Cobleskill, NY: Kathryn I. Rickard, 1989. Large quarto. 250pp. One of 500 copies. A card signed by Miss Welsh is attached to the title page. With over 7200 entries plus a short title list, this long awaited volume is the first extensive bibliography of miniature books ever to be published..... More
(Boston: Marian Parry, c. 1998). (10)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the artist, Marian Parry. Eight 2-by-3-inch cards (plus two more for the title and colophon) show various odd couples, satirically illustrated. The drawings were xeroxed and then playfully hand-colored by Parry, a well-known artist and illustrator. Fine in..... More
Cambridge, MA: Runcible Books, (c. 1987). (12)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the artist, Marian Parry. This copy inscribed by her on the first card to Dorothea Widmayer and Eleanor Webster. Ten 2 by 3-inch cards show the characters: the fascinating foreigner; the ingenue libertine; the weak young man..... More
Paisley, Scotland: Gleniffer Press, 1985. (12)pp. One of 85 copies. This micro-miniature was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the "Smallest Book in the World" in 1985. The book was printed using offset lithographic methods, with the text area of each page being less than 1 square millimeter..... More
(N.p.): Design Concepts of America, 1977. Single microform sheet + (32)pp. The microform holds all 1245 pages of the Bible, at a reduction of 62,500 to 1. Part of a series of MicroJewel Presentation productions, and accompanied by a booklet that is both laudatory of the technological achievement of the..... More
(Leipzig): Edition Leipzig, 1971. (28)pp. Ultra-miniature ABC, accompanied by a trifold information booklet, which describes in German the book's production and contributors. Bound in a gilt-stamped leather binding, and housed in translucent sliding case, together with booklet inside cloth-covered box. Fine. (3x2.5mm). More
(Austin, TX: Somesuch Press, 1986). (22)ff. One of 200 copies, signed by the printer. With thirteen black & white illustrations by the artist Rockwell Kent. Originally published in 1922 in an edition of eight copies. This miniature book was composed and printed by eight-year-old Susannah Kent (no relation to the..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, (1961). 30pp. First edition. With a photo-reproduced frontispiece portrait of President Kennedy tipped in. Bound in full blue leather, with title and decorative border in gilt on front cover and back cover devoid of ornamentation. Very fine. A.e.g. (Massmann 19; Bradbury, p. 253). (2 5/8..... More
St. Augustine, Florida: Lytel Press, 1978. Thirty small manuscript cards. One of fifty copies, designated in pen on the colophon as "Your Copy". Each letter of this whimsical alphabet is drawn within a red circle, then within an oval is a word that starts with that letter. Each word has..... More
(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind & Harlot Press, (1991). (24)pp., frenchfold. One of 52 copies. A lovely presentation of the classic poem, printed on Japanese paper. With sweetly colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris showing the cat as she is beguiled by the gold (fish) that ultimately leads to her doom. Mint..... More
